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By Michael Fisher The newly-elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, like some of his predecessors, has an important link with County Monaghan. Reverend Ian McNie, Minister of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Ballymoney, County Antrim, is married, with two sons, one of whom is also a clergyman and is based in North Monaghan. Reverend Stephen McNie was installed last year as Minister at Ballyalbany Presbyterian Church outside Monaghan town, and Glennan Church near Glaslough. Reverend Ian McNie will officially take up office as Moderator at the start of the Presbyterian General Assembly in ...

Michael Fisher Carrickmacross was stunned by the unexpected announcement a week ago that the Bose factory is to close in April with the loss of 140 jobs. Now a government Minister has been asked to intervene to establish if the decision by the US-based multinational can be reversed or deferred to give the state agencies an opportunity to seek a replacement business. The news came as a  shocking New Year blow for several mortgage holders, and family members,  dependent on a  weekly wage from the Bose plant. People like Pat McNally ...

ATTEMPTS to prevent a court-approved receiver from taking ownership of a property in the Milltown Business Park, Monaghan resulted in a group of school children and a disabled person getting trapped in a lift in two separate incidents, the January hearings of Monaghan Circuit Civil Court were told. In an application made on behalf of the receivers, James Meagher and Adrian Truiek, against named respondents PJ (Patrick Joseph) Woods, Killyconnigan, Monaghan and his bother Danny Woods, now living in Australia, Judge John O’Hagan was told that assistance had to be obtained ...

The Bishop of Clogher Dr Liam MacDaid has made a special appeal at a Mass in Carrickroe, Emyvale, for anyone with information about Columba McVeigh, abducted and killed by the IRA in 1975 and then secretly buried, to come forward. Dr MacDaid urged anyone who might have even a small shred of evidence about where Mr McVeigh was buried to contact the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains. Prayers were also said and a candle was lit for Kieran McAree, the Emyvale man who is believed to have gone ...

By PATSY McARDLE ALLEGED sensational claims by anonymous sources published in a Sunday newspaper suggesting there are toxins being pumped into Lough Muckno near Castleblayney, and the water supply to Dundalk, led to a public assurance at a meeting of Louth County Council on Monday last,   from the Council’s Director of Services, Mr. Frank Pentony, that tests carried out on the water, during the past year, had found “no issue” with the supply. The senior official categorically assured councillors—and the public generally—that the water supply to Dundalk was “safe”. The issue was raised ...

The signing of a €4.3 million contract for the new single campus Castleblayney College is a landmark occasion for students, parents, teachers and the community at large. The whole of the county is aware of the long-running saga of the split school campus at the college. For fifteen years the college has mounted a campaign to have a single campus and eliminate the dangers of having the N2 roadway through the college. More than a thousand crossings daily between buildings posed a risk to students and now that risk is to ...

The National Roads Authority are being requested to expedite approval and funding for a comprehensive plan of safety measures at the Shaws Corner area of Emyvale where a lorry transporting milk overturned and collided with portion of a residence around 8.30 am on Sunday morning last. The N2 was closed in both directions for a time following the crash and Gardaí are continuing an investigation into the cause of the incident, which occurred in icy road conditions. The driver of the vehicle is understood to have escaped serious injury and ...

Cathaoirleach of Monaghan Co Council Pádraig McNally has appealed to local organisations and individuals to assist in the ongoing search operation in the Lough Erne area of Co Fermanagh for missing Monaghan man Kieran McAree. Mr McAree was reported missing on Wednesday, December 17 and an extensive search operation has been ongoing since then. At Monday’s Co Council meeting, the Cathaoirleach stated that the Council should lend its support to the family, friends and community of Mr McAree at this time. He pointed out that all help was welcome with the continuing ...

By Cianna McNally THE campaign to keep the Ulster Bank branch in Clones open shows no sign of slowing down. Following on from a candle-lit vigil outside the bank on Wednesday last, 7th January, which saw 143 candles lit to represent each year the bank had been in Clones, as The Northern Standard was going to print yesterday, Wednesday evening, a meeting between Clones Chamber of Commerce and Ulster Bank management was taking place. It had been arranged by Minister for the Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Heather Humphreys. Chamber representatives vowed at a second well-attended public meeting in ...

The opening of closed wards at Monaghan General Hospital so beds there could be used to alleviate the serious overcrowding afflicting hospitals in other locations in the region was one measure advocated during a debate at Monday’s meeting of Monaghan Co Council. The failure of successive governments to address the high numbers of patients waiting on trolleys in Accident & Emergency Departments was also emphasised by speakers to a Fianna Fáil notice of urgent business calling on Minister for Health Leo Varadkar TD and the Fine Gael-led Government to take immediate ...